In his jobs speech tonight, President Obama will urge Congress to act by conceeding that though Washington can't do that much to turn the economy around, "We can make a difference." He'll call on ...

Here’s the president’s speech, from Las Vegas earlier today. He starts talking about his specific demands at 14:41 in this video: Obama’s speech presented even less detail than the bipartisan group of ...

Barack Obama’s ability to inspire with his oratory skills was a hallmark of his political career. But one speech above all — one he delivered in Alabama in the last year of his presidency — is ...

Convention season came to a close last night with President Obama's second acceptance speech as the Democratic nominee. So how did he do? Well, the overall reaction from both conservatives and ...

Two speechwriters for former President Barack Obama joined the Penn Political Union on Tuesday for a discussion about presidential communication. Cody Keenan and Tyler Lechtenberg — who both worked ...

My reaction: a friend has been sending me ecstatic emails about the speech. I just watched it—the speech is every bit as good as the ones candidate Obama gave, as the performance candidate Obama ...

Oh for Christ’s sake—for the first time during an Obama speech I’m screaming at the TV in disgust. Did that motherfucker really come right out of the gate with a history of 9/11? It was downright ...